Umar of Africa

Umar of Africa (735-) was the Sultan of the Sultanate of Africa from 769.

Biography
Umar was born to the Muhallabids, a Muslim Bedouin dynasty that ruled both North Africa and the Muhallabid Sultanate of Egypt; he was a distant relative of the Egyptian rulers. Umar ruled over the Sultanate of Africa, which ruled over lands from Tunisia to Cyrenaica in Libya, a large empire. He competed with the Kingdom of Lombardy of Italy as well as his Egyptian kinsmen, and he married his daughter Princess Sheeftah of Africa to King Omar of Shewa to form an alliance.